DESIGNING WOVEN FABRICS

 

Designing Woven Fabrics describes and illustrates Janet's method of designing functional woven fabrics based on the 2/2 Twill weave structure. It addresses the questions that students most commonly ask of her:

• How do you design fabrics?
• Where do you get your ideas from?
• How do you choose colour combinations?
• What can I do with the yarn in my store cupboard?

The book, generously illustrated with over 200 colour photographs and over 100 weave diagrams is divided into three distinct parts. The extracts below illustrate different parts of the book. You can click on the links below to see extracts from the various parts. 'Hover' your mouse cursor near the bottom of the image and a toolbar should appear when you can use the '+' or '-' tools to increase or decrease the picture's magnification! The images will take a few moments to load!

Part 1 covers the construction and weaving of a Multiple-sectioned Sample Blanket developing the 2/2 Twill weave structure.

Part 2 describes the principal design criteria available, such as colour, yarn and sett, to enable a weave structure to be developed into an attractive cloth.

Part 3 details 50 original designs using weaves from the Multiple-sectioned Sample Blanket and applying the design criteria to them.

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